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All 67 Songs That Taylor Swift Has Written By Herself
Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour in Melbourne.
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- Taylor Swift has been writing songs since she was a teenager.
- More than 60 tracks credit Swift as the sole writer, which means she composed the lyrics and melody alone.
- These include five tracks from Swift's latest album "The Tortured Poets Department."
"The Outside"![]()
"The Outside" is the sixth track on "Taylor Swift."
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Best lyrics: "I tried to take the road less traveled by / But nothing seems to work the first few times."
"Should've Said No"![]()
Taylor Swift performs at the 2008 ACM Awards.
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Best lyrics: "I should've been there, in the back of your mind / I shouldn't be asking myself why / You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet / You should've said no / Baby, and you might still have me."
"Our Song"![]()
"Our Song" was released as a single in 2007.
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Best lyrics: "Our song is the slamming screen door / Sneaking out late, tapping on your window / When we're on the phone and you talk real slow / 'Cause it's late and your mama don't know."
"Christmas Must Be Something More"![]()
"Christmas Must Be Something More" is the fifth track on "The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection."
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Best lyrics: "What if ribbons and bows didn't mean a thing? / Would the song still survive without five golden rings?"
"Beautiful Eyes"![]()
"Beautiful Eyes" is the first track on Swift's "Beautiful Eyes" EP.
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Best lyrics: "I wake up, I'm alive / In only a little while, I'll cry."
"I Heart ?"![]()
"I Heart ?" is the sixth track on "Beautiful Eyes."
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Best lyrics: "Wake up and smell the breakup / Fix my heart, put on my makeup / Another mess I didn't plan."
"Fifteen"![]()
"Fifteen" was released as a single in 2009.
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Best lyrics: "Back then, I swore I was gonna marry him someday / But I realized some bigger dreams of mine / And Abigail gave everything she had / To a boy who changed his mind / And we both cried."
"Love Story"![]()
"Love Story" was released as a single in 2008.
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Best lyrics: "Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel / This love is difficult, but it's real."
"Hey Stephen"![]()
"Hey Stephen" is the fourth track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Hey Stephen, I could give you 50 reasons / Why I should be the one you choose / All those other girls, well, they're beautiful / But would they write a song for you?"
"You're Not Sorry"![]()
"You're Not Sorry" is the ninth track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "You had me crawling for you, honey, and it never would've gone away, no / You used to shine so bright, but I watched all of it fade."
"Forever & Always"![]()
"Forever & Always" is the 11th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Was I out of line? / Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy? / I looked into your eyes / Thought I knew you for a minute, now I'm not so sure."
"The Best Day"![]()
"The Best Day" is the 12th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "And now I know why all the trees change in the fall / I know you were on my side even when I was wrong / And I love you for giving me your eyes / For staying back and watching me shine."
"Change"![]()
"Change" is the 13th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "We're getting stronger now, find things they never found / They might be bigger but we're faster and never scared."
"Jump Then Fall"![]()
"Jump Then Fall" is the 14th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "The bottom's gonna drop out from under our feet / I'll catch you, I'll catch you / When people say things that bring you to your knees / I'll catch you / The time is gonna come when you're so mad you could cry / But I'll hold you through the night until you smile."
"The Other Side of the Door"![]()
"The Other Side of the Door" is the 19th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "With your face and the beautiful eyes / And the conversation with the little white lies / And the faded picture of a beautiful night / You carried me from your car up the stairs / And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess? / After everything and that little black dress / After everything, I must confess / I need you."
"Today Was a Fairytale"![]()
"Today Was a Fairytale" is the 20th track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Can you feel this magic in the air? / It must have been the way you kissed me."
"Mr. Perfectly Fine"![]()
"Mr. Perfectly Fine" is the 22nd track on "Fearless (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "So dignified in your well-pressed suit / So strategized, all the eyes on you / Sashay your way to your seat / It's the best seat, in the best room."
"Mine"![]()
"Mine" was released as a single in 2010.
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Best lyrics: "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter."
"Sparks Fly"![]()
"Sparks Fly" was released as a single in 2011.
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Best lyrics: "Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down / Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around."
"Back to December"![]()
"Back to December" was released as a single in 2010.
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Best lyrics: "And then the cold came, the dark days / When fear crept into my mind / You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye."
"Speak Now"![]()
"Speak Now" is the fourth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen / But I know you wish it was me / You wish it was me, don't you?"
"Dear John"![]()
"Dear John" is the fifth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "All the girls that you've run dry have tired lifeless eyes / 'Cause you burned them out / But I took your matches before fire could catch me / So don't look now / I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town."
"Mean"![]()
"Mean" was released as a single in 2011.
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Best lyrics: "I bet you got pushed around / Somebody made you cold / But the cycle ends right now / 'Cause you can't lead me down that road / And you don't know what you don't know."
"The Story of Us"![]()
"The Story of Us" was released as a single in 2011.
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Best lyrics: "I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know how / I've never heard silence quite this loud."
"Never Grow Up"![]()
"Never Grow Up" is the eighth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Remember the footsteps, remember the words said / And all your little brother's favorite songs / I just realized everything I have is, someday, gonna be gone."
"Enchanted"![]()
"Enchanted" is the ninth track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Please don't be in love with someone else / Please don't have somebody waiting on you."
"Better than Revenge"![]()
"Better than Revenge" is the 10th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "She looks at life like it's a party and she's on the list / She looks at me like I'm a trend and she's so over it / I think her ever-present frown is a little troubling / She thinks I'm psycho 'cause I like to rhyme her name with things."
"Innocent"![]()
"Innocent" is the 11th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Time turns flames to embers / You'll have new Septembers / Every one of us has messed up too / Minds change like the weather / I hope you remember / Today is never too late to be brand new."
"Haunted"![]()
"Haunted" is the 12th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Oh, holding my breath / Won't see you again / Something keeps me holding onto nothing."
"Last Kiss"![]()
"Last Kiss" is the 13th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep / And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe / And I'll keep up with our old friends / Just to ask them how you are."
"Long Live"![]()
"Long Live" is the 14th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "And the cynics were outraged / Screaming, 'This is absurd' / 'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans / Got to rule the world."
"Ours"![]()
"Ours" is the 15th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Don't you worry your pretty little mind / People throw rocks at things that shine."
"Superman"![]()
"Superman" is the 16th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Something in his deep brown eyes has me saying / He's not all bad like his reputation / And I can't hear one single word they say / And you'll leave, got places to be and I'll be OK."
"Electric Touch" (featuring Fall Out Boy)![]()
"Electric Touch" is the 17th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "I've gotten used to no one calling my phone / I've grown accustomed to sleeping alone / Still, I know that all it takes is to get it right / Just one time, just one time."
"When Emma Falls in Love"![]()
"When Emma Falls in Love" is the 18th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "She's the kind of book that you can't put down / Like if Cleopatra grew up in a small town."
"I Can See You"![]()
"I Can See You" is the 19th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "They keep watchful eyes on us / So it's best that we move fast and keep quiet / You won't believe half the things I see inside my head / Wait 'til you see half the things that haven't happened yet."
"Castles Crumbling" (featuring Hayley Williams)![]()
"Castles Crumbling" is the 20th track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Power went to my head and I couldn't stop / Ones I loved tried to help, so I ran them off / And here I sit alone behind walls of regret / Falling down like promises that I never kept."
"Foolish One"![]()
"Foolish One" is the 21st track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "'Cause you got her on your arm and me in the wings / I'll get your longing glances, but she'll get your ring / And you will say you had the best of intentions / And maybe I will finally learn my lesson."
"Timeless"![]()
"Timeless" is the 22nd track on "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs / Story of a romance torn apart by fate / Hundreds of years ago, they fell in love, like we did / And I'd die for you in the same way, if I first saw your face /In the 1500s off in a foreign land / And I was forced to marry another man / You still would've been mine."
"Eyes Open"![]()
"Eyes Open" was included on the soundtrack "The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond."
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Best lyrics: "So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard / Every lesson forms a new scar / They never thought you'd make it this far."
"State of Grace"![]()
"State of Grace" is the first track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Love is a ruthless game, unless you play it good and right."
"Red"![]()
"Red" is the second track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street / Faster than the wind, passionate as sin / Ending so suddenly."
"I Almost Do"![]()
"I Almost Do" is the seventh track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "I bet it never, ever occurred to you / That I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye."
"Stay Stay Stay"![]()
"Stay Stay Stay" is the ninth track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "All those times that you didn't leave, it's been occurring to me / I'd like to hang out with you for my whole life."
"Holy Ground"![]()
"Holy Ground" is the 11th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Took off faster than a green light, go / Hey, you skip the conversation when you already know / I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made / And that was the first day."
"Sad Beautiful Tragic"![]()
"Sad Beautiful Tragic" is the 12th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "And time is taking its sweet time erasing you / And you've got your demons, and darling, they all look like me."
"The Lucky One"![]()
"The Lucky One" is the 13th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "And they tell you that you're lucky, but you're just so confused / 'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used / And all the young things line up to take your place."
"Starlight"![]()
"Starlight" is the 15th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "I said, 'Oh, my, what a marvelous tune' / It was the best night, never would forget how we moved."
"Begin Again"![]()
"Begin Again" was released as a single in 2012.
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Best lyrics: "I've been spending the last eight months / Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end / But on a Wednesday, in a café, I watched it begin again."
"The Moment I Knew"![]()
"The Moment I Knew" is the 17th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "What do you say when tears are streaming down your face in front of everyone you know? / And what do you do when the one who means the most to you is the one who didn't show?"
"Girl at Home"![]()
"Girl at Home" is the 19th track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Call a cab, lose my number / You're about to lose your girl."
"Better Man"![]()
"Better Man" is the 22nd track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "But your jealousy, oh I can hear it now / Talking down to me like I'd always be around / Push my love away like it was some kind of loaded gun / Oh, you never thought I'd run."
"Nothing New" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)![]()
"Nothing New" is the 23rd track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "I know someday I'm gonna meet her, it's a fever dream / The kind of radiance you only have at 17 / She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from me / I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep."
"This Love"![]()
"This Love" is the 11th track on "1989 (Taylor's Version)."
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Best lyrics: "Clear blue water / High tide came and brought you in / And I could go on and on, on and on, and I will."
"Lover"![]()
"Lover" was released as a single in 2019.
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Best lyrics: "My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue / All's well that ends well to end up with you / Swear to be overdramatic and true."
"Cornelia Street"![]()
"Cornelia Street" is the ninth track on "Lover."
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Best lyrics: "I get mystified by how this city screams your name / And baby, I'm so terrified of if you ever walk away / I'd never walk Cornelia Street again."
"Daylight"![]()
"Daylight" is the 18th track on "Lover."
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Best lyrics: "And I can still see it all in my head / Back and forth from New York sneaking in your bed / I once believed love would be burning red / But it's golden."
"Christmas Tree Farm"![]()
"Christmas Tree Farm" was released as a single in 2019.
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Best lyrics: "Sweet dreams of holly and ribbon / Mistakes are forgiven / And everything is icy and blue / And you would be there too."
"My Tears Ricochet"![]()
"My Tears Ricochet" is the fifth track on "Folklore."
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Best lyrics: "And I can go anywhere I want / Anywhere I want, just not home / And you can aim for my heart, go for blood / But you would still miss me in your bones / And I still talk to you, when I'm screaming at the sky / And when you can't sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies."
"No Body, No Crime" (featuring HAIM)![]()
"No Body, No Crime" is the sixth track on "Evermore."
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Best lyrics: "Good thing Este's sister's gonna swear she was with me / Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy."
"Vigilante Shit"![]()
"Vigilante Shit" is the eighth track on "Midnights."
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Best lyrics: "Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife / And she looks so pretty."
"Bigger Than the Whole Sky"![]()
"Bigger Than the Whole Sky" is the 15th track on "Midnights (3am Edition)."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "I've got a lot to pine about / I've got a lot to live without / I'm never gonna meet / What could've been, would've been / What should've been you."
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"![]()
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" is the third track on "The Tortured Poets Department."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "Pull my string and I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me."
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"![]()
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" is the 10th track on "The Tortured Poets Department."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me / So all you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebs / I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said? / That I'll sue you if you step on my lawn / That I'm fearsome and I'm wretched and I'm wrong / Put narcotics into all of my songs / And that's why you're still singing along."
"The Black Dog"![]()
"The Black Dog" is the 17th track on "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "I just don't understand how you don't miss me / In the shower, and remember / How my rain-soaked body was shaking / Do you hate me? Was it hazing for a cruel fraternity? / I pledged, and I still mean it / Old habits die screaming."
"Peter"![]()
"Peter" is the 28th track on "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "You said you'd come and get me, but you were 25 / And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired / Lost to the 'Lost Boys' chapter of your life / Forgive me, Peter, please know that I tried / To hold on to the days when you were mine / But the woman who sits by the window / Has turned out the light."
"The Manuscript"![]()
"The Manuscript" is the 31st track on "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology."
Beth Garrabrant
Best lyrics: "Then she dated boys who were her own age / With dart boards on the backs of their doors / She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years / Everything had been above board / She wasn't sure."
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